<![CDATA[Shortcuts on the home screen behave inconsistently]]>Hello,

I observed a behavior which I cannot explain. It is related to Opera shortcuts on the home screen (sometimes also named "start page")

  • Close all running applications on the smartphone device in order to start from a clean, defined state

  • Open Opera Browser on Android

  • Navigate to edition.cnn.com

  • When the page is loaded, add a shortcut to the home screen

  • Close the cnn tab

  • In a new tab, navigate to finance.yahoo.com

  • When the page is loaded, add a shortcut to the home screen

  • Close all tabs and close Opera browser

  • Result: two new shortcuts should have been created on the home screen

  • Tap the cnn shortcut on the home screen

  • Result: Opera Browser opens and displays the cnn page in a new tab. That's fine and behaves as expected.

  • View all running applications. Result: only one instance of Opera browser is listed. That's fine.

  • Tap the yahoo finance shortcut on the home screen

  • Result: Opera browser doesn't open with a new tab. Instead, it seems that a new application is started (without any tabs).

  • View all running applications. Result: two different applications are running: one Opera browser (which was started when tapping the cnn shortcut) and one "Yahoo Finance" app, but it is unclear which kind of application that is.

I would have expected that the yahoo finance web site would also be opened in Opera browser, in a new tab. This would have the advantage that I can toggle between the tabs. Having two apps doesn't allow me to easily switch tabs.
It is unclear why a new application is started.

Same behavior applies to other websites: sometimes they open as new tab in Opera browser, sometimes as "new application".

Some more details:
Version of Android: 8.1.0
Phone model and manufacturer: Motorola, Moto G5 Plus
Your version of Opera for Android: 62.3.3146.57763
If ad-blocker is enabled or not: enabled (but I disabled it for testing)
If data savings is enabled or not: enabled

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Bernd

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/48014/shortcuts-on-the-home-screen-behave-inconsistentlyRSS for NodeTue, 21 Apr 2026 17:59:12 GMTTue, 23 Mar 2021 11:16:47 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Shortcuts on the home screen behave inconsistently on Tue, 23 Mar 2021 16:03:16 GMT]]>@leocg You are right. Same behavior with Chrome, so it must be PWA related.

Thanks for your support.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/246463https://forums.opera.com/post/246463Tue, 23 Mar 2021 16:03:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shortcuts on the home screen behave inconsistently on Tue, 23 Mar 2021 15:53:22 GMT]]>@b3web Test in other browsers to see if the behavior is the same.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/246461https://forums.opera.com/post/246461Tue, 23 Mar 2021 15:53:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shortcuts on the home screen behave inconsistently on Tue, 23 Mar 2021 15:11:52 GMT]]>@leocg Thanks for your quick reply. It seems that this is really related to PWA (which I never heard of before). So it looks like this behavior cannot be changed.
However, it is not working correctly, as I just discovered. I created a shortcut on the home page for this page: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AMZN?p=AMZN&.tsrc=fin-srch
When I tap the shortcut, not the yahoo finance website with Amazon stock information is opened, but the yahoo finance start page. Is that a bug in Opera browser or is this also related to PWA?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/246459https://forums.opera.com/post/246459Tue, 23 Mar 2021 15:11:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Shortcuts on the home screen behave inconsistently on Tue, 23 Mar 2021 14:42:35 GMT]]>@b3web Same behavior in Chrome, I guess it has to with PWA.

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/246457https://forums.opera.com/post/246457Tue, 23 Mar 2021 14:42:35 GMT